THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 12TH MAY, 1897,
As will be seen from our Macao correspon- dent's letter, the port dues at Macao are to be abolished as regards coast and river steamers. Epitoms of the Week, d........................................................................................................365 Leading Articles :→→
The Haiphong Chamber of Commerce has The Position of Li Hung-chang...366 voted against the application to Indo-Chins of Examination of Accused Persons ................................................. .366 the provisions of the new treaty between France
A few Grievances ......................................367 and Japan. The Address to the Queen
Hongkong Sanitary Board......
The Address to Her Majesty.....................................
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A telegram from Vancouver received by the 367 Japanese Government states that the amend .367 ment of the Canadian Tariff, which is now .368 completed, leaves tea free of duty as before.
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Renewed Rebellion in Formosa .............................................. The United States Tariff on Tea
The Rebellion in the Philippines....
Hongkong Legislative Council...aş....................................
The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce........
The Diamond Jubilee Memorial
The Diamond Jubilee
Indian Famine Relief Fund .........................................................................
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The Police Report
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Fire Inndrance Association of Hongkong...
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The Yangtze Insurance Association, Limited
Jelebu Mining and Trading Company Limited.... The Haiphong Chamber of Commerce and the Franco-
Japanese Treatý.
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Correspondence
Lawn Tennis Tournament
The Philippine Loan.
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Hongkong Volunteer Carbine Competition ............................................ 876 Immigrant Taxation at Singapore.
The Bounty on the Direct Export of Raw Silk from
Japan.......................
Russia, Japan, and Korca............................................. Sir Claude MacDonald's Visit to Foochow
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The Death by Drowning of the Rev. J. 8. Collink.....378 Another Chinese Loan
Official Recognition of the Services of the Rey, Gilbert
· Reid
British North Borneo.....
Commercial...
Hongkong and Port News...
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
The legal representatives of those who lost their lives in the Onwo filed their claims at Shanghai on the 30th April, the last day for doing so. There were 124 Chinese claims and two European.
Chev. E. Ghisi, Consul for Italy at Shanghai, has received a telegram announcing that Mar- quis Salvago is nominated to Peking, and is ex- pected there very shortly. It is not known yet whether he is appointed Minister or Chargé d'Affaires.
No. 19.
The chief engineer of the German man-of- war Princess Wilhelm committed suicide by shooting himself at the German Hospital at Yokohama on the 1st May. He had been an inmate of the hospital for some time, and it is thought his rash act was due to mental des pression.
ears.
In the race for the Chu-ka-za Cup on the second day of the Shanghai Races Mr. Midwood was thrown by Black and White and was picked up unconscious, bleeding from the mouth and It was feared he was suffering from con- cussion of the brain, but he recovered conscious. ness some time afterwards and was found to be not so seriously injured as was at first believed. We hear that a telegram was received from Shanghai on Monday to the effect that Mr. Midwood was out of danger and recovering rapidly.
An important auction of property took place at Foochow on the 30th April. Lot 1 was the business premises known as the Kung Eu hong, lately occupied by Messrs. Phipp, Phipps & Co., which was knocked down for $5,200. The It is currently reported amongst natives at building alone of these premises, the auctioneer Shanghai, the N. C. Daily News says that H. E. stated, cost $24,000. Lot 2 was the Bungalow Sheng has refused to receive the resignation on the hill occupied by Mr. H. B. Weeks. This of Dr. Ho Kai and that he has telegraphed to the latter asking him to return to Shanghai to resume his post.
The following ratepayers have been nominated for the Shanghai Municipal Council:-Messrs. F. Anderson, A. R. Burkill, J. S. Fearon, E: A. Hewett, the Rev. J. R. Hykes, R. W. Little, O: Middleton, J. Prentice, M. Rohde, E. Shel- 384 lim, J. D. Thorburn, J. Welch, and H. P.
Wilkinson.
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At Tokyo, on April 24th, Mr. GAVIN A. FORREST,
to Miss FRANCIS J. HUNT.
On the 4th May, at Shanghai, by H. Danish M. Consul, and at the Cathedral by the Reverend A. Elwin, CARL CHRISTIAN BOJESEN, Chief Inspector, Imperial Chinese Telegraphs, to AGNES MARTHA YANG, of Canton.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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Mr. Yamada, the Japanese Consul at Lyons, has, it is reported, telegraphed to the Japanese Foreign Office that a proposal has been made in the French Chamber of Deputies to impose. import duties on silk goods, and a Bill has been brought in to encourage export of French silk by means of bounties, Both proposals have powerful support:
was bought in by the mortgagee for $2,900, the limit of $3,000 not having been bid. The results show the present depressed" value of property in Fooshow.-Echo.
A claim was recently made by the Tonkin Government on Insurance companies doing business in that country for arrears of duty due under the Registration law on policies issued by them. Such duties have not hitherto been col- lected and the claim now preferred amounted to a large sum. The matter was brought before the Haiphong Chamber of Commerce, which recommended that no arrears should be claimed. A compromise has now been arrived at be tween the Government and some of the companies concerned, according to which the duty is to be paid as from the 1st January of the present year, the claim for preceding years being waived, on condition "that the companies undertale not to resist the remainder of the claim at law. Some of the companies, it is reported, have declined the compromise and important law quits are in view,
Illustrating the ignorance and conceit of the ordinary up-country native, says the Peking and Tientsin Times, an English gentleman tells The American mail of the 10th April arrived, down from Peking a few days ago, a peasant us that, while waiting at a station on his way per P. M. steamer City of Bio de Janeiro, on who entered into friendly conversation in-
The Governor of the Straits Settlements in the 10th May (30 days), the French mail of the nocently, asked if they had heard of such thingssideration a draft Bill by which a levy of $1 is submitting for the Secretary of State's con-
- 9th April arrived, per M. M. ateamer Natal, on
as railways in his honourable country !! the 11th May (32 days); and the Canadian mail of the 20th April arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 11th May (21 days).
A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held on the 10th May at which H.E. the Governor announced that it was not his intention to appoint a commission to inquire into the working of the Opium Farm and the possibility of substituting bonded warehouses. Certain by-laws submitted by the Sanitary Board for approval were considered and were Mr. Pritchard Morgan, M.P., and party have referred back to the Board with amendments returned to Shanghai from the North.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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deletions.
The natives of Formosa became Japanese
A Tokyo press despatch of the 27th April subjects on the 8th May. A renewal of the states that as a result of the negotiations rebellion is reported.
between the Japanese and German Govern- Sir Claude MacDonald, after visiting Foo-ments in regard to the question of Consular chow, arrived at Shanghai on the 2nd May and Jurisdiction over litigation in connection with left again for Tientsin on the 7th.
patents, &c, [previous to the new Treaty coming into operation], the German Govern- ment has acceded to the view taken by Japan. It has been arranged to conclude a supple mentary convention to arrange the matter.
Senor Galhardo, the new Governor of Macao, was a passenger by the M. M. steamer Natal, which arrived at Hongkong yesterday,
to be made on all Chinese immigrants arriving in the Straits said that as this revenue would be extraordinary, and was quite uncontemplated when the military contribution was settled, he saw no objection to a part of the draft preamble and certain sections which were designed to prevent sums levied under this Ordinance being assessed at 171 per cent. for military contribu- tion, but he left the matter for the Secretary of State's decision. Mr. Chamberlain in his reply saysWhile not objecting to the levy of a special tax for a special object, to be reduced or repealed when the object has been met, I can. not sanction the arrangement by which it is proposed to place the proceeds of the tar in a Special Fund, not forming part of the general revenue, with a view to preventing the amounts in question being asssessed at 17 per cent. for the military contribution. The adoption of this device would lead to endless discussion, and the amount involved is relatively so small that it is not worth raising any question about it.
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